What's the difference between inconsequential and unimportant?

Inconsequential


Definition:

  • (a.) Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
  • (2) It is possible, however, that neither drug can alter the natural course of this disease and may just hasten its expected inconsequential resolution.
  • (3) The structural underpinnings of these internal problems are assumed inconsequential and not addressed, and so is the international dimension.
  • (4) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
  • (5) To cap all this, it appears that Tesco may have massaged its bottom line by a not inconsequential quarter of a billion pounds.
  • (6) Recognizing that states may soon prove inconsequential to the discussion, the Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, last week shifted her stance and came out in support of gay marriage as a constitutional right.
  • (7) If the British government wants the best of its teachers to stick around and deliver this on home soil, it needs to provide good reasons for them to do so – and they need to be better reasons than flimsy, inconsequential pre-election workload surveys and 1% pay increases .
  • (8) There are pages where, unexpectedly, amid the horror, a reader feels he has stumbled on a near-inconsequential diary entry.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uruguay captain, Diego Lugano, describes Luis Suárez's alleged bite during their final World Cup group match against Italy as inconsequential After considering footage of the incident, including angles not shown on television, and other material including witness statements and the referee’s report, Sulser’s committee will decide on a sanction and whether it should apply to all matches or just international fixtures.
  • (10) A seven-year total population survey from south-east Queensland has revealed that, in practice, the rate of clinical poisoning due to oleander is inconsequential, and mortality is negligible.
  • (11) Halothane (0.5 mM) did not inhibit phorbol ester- or ionomycin-induced PRL secretion, indicating that halothane has inconsequential effects on the secretory apparatus.
  • (12) 1 intubation failure, 5 failures in coelioscopy, 5 uterine perforations, and 5 inconsequential vascular wounds were noted, bringing the overall rare of morbidity to 1.2%.
  • (13) On the other hand, costs of screening are not inconsequential, and costs involved in follow-up procedures are high.
  • (14) Using a grading scale for complications, 24 percent of patients had inconsequential complications, 16 percent had moderate complications, and 19 percent had severe complications.
  • (15) However, the incidence of breast cancer is shown in a number of case-controlled retrospective studies to be unaffected by OC use, except for certain subsets of statistically inconsequential numbers.
  • (16) If others share these findings, the implications for control of this disease are frightening, as the risk of transmission to patients' sexual partners is not inconsequential.
  • (17) But Harding's solution to the inconsequentiality of What's My Line?
  • (18) Liposomes prepared from octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside-extracted YAC-1 and NK-enriched effector cell membranes interfered with conjugate formation, whereas liposomes prepared from NK-insensitive P815 cells were inconsequential.
  • (19) The observed elevations in skin temperatures were physiologically inconsequential.
  • (20) Adverse effects were inconsequential and comparable in both groups.

Unimportant


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
  • (2) For example, we hypothesize that competition can be unimportant even if it is very intense: no such hypothesis is possible unless importance is distinguished from intensity.
  • (3) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
  • (4) Nucleotide pyrophosphatases seem to play an unimportant role in guanylyl imidodiphosphate conversion, while alkaline phosphatase is possibly of more importance.
  • (5) Moreover, M1-muscarinic receptors appear to be relatively unimportant in mediating the effects of carbachol on short circuit current (ISC).
  • (6) Cl measured with each method exceeded Crs (p less than .05), but the magnitude was clinically unimportant.
  • (7) According to these results the acetylator phenotype seems to be an unimportant factor in therapy with dihydralazine.
  • (8) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
  • (9) Analysis of this time delay as a function of the factor Xa concentration indicates that the gain of the feedback loop of factor V activation by thrombin is so high that the contribution of factor V activation by factor Xa is relatively unimportant for factor Xa concentrations in the nanomolar range.
  • (10) This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described.
  • (11) But he is warm and sharp, and the punchlines begin to feel unimportant when the journey there is so much fun.
  • (12) Since this phenomenon is associated with high concentrations of contrast media in nonflowing blood, the high shear rate in arteries and arterioles make it unimportant in the in vivo situation.
  • (13) Didn't they realise how unimportant it all was, compared with what we'd been through?"
  • (14) The contribution made by cytotoxicity to the overall antiviral effect (measured by 24 h yield) was negligible in Flow 2002 cells, and was relatively unimportant in BHK cells.
  • (15) Safety was very satisfactory: patients complained only rarely of trivial and clinically unimportant side effects; no variations in laboratory tests were noted.
  • (16) Our results suggest that the osmotic and free-radical scavenging properties of hexoses are relatively unimportant in relation to their antiarrhythmic effects.
  • (17) Items loading on the first three factors were thought to be generally important, and those on the last three relatively unimportant.
  • (18) The basis of the program is a valid 'partial' statistical description of the EEG; that description is then used to produce a digital representation of a signal which, if plotted sequentially, might or might not by chance resemble an EEG, that is unimportant.
  • (19) The involvement of General Practitioners in the care of epilepsy was found to be small, but not unimportant.
  • (20) Pocket elimination by the use of surgical procedures (gingivectomy, flap operation with bone surgery) may be preferred in regions of the mouth where the aesthetic result is unimportant and where the removal of alveolar bone does not jeopardize the periodontal support of neighbouring teeth.